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The song was extremely popular and well remembered: a pastiche was included in The Cabaret Girl, a 1922 musical produced in London, a parody of it was recorded by Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer in the late 1930s, another parody was performed by Jackie Gleason and Groucho Marx ( who was Al Shean's nephew ) on television in 1967, and Lenny Bruce was able to make an offhanded reference to it in his nightclub act of the 1960s, all of them confident that audiences would recognize it right away.
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Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.
Karl played well and his favorite song was a Schubert lullaby.
The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.
Later, when I was older, I found the song was part of Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin.
With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.
There was one of the new forte-pianos in the room and, as Claire rose to go, he asked her to sing him one song before she left.
There was about that song something incandescent, for this Brahms was Milstein at white heat.
To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.
( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.
and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.
it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.
Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.
At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.
When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.
Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.
He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.
A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.
The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.
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In karaoke it is extremely common for furigana to be placed on the song lyrics.
Such establishments commonly invest more in both equipment and song discs, and are often extremely popular, with an hour or more wait between a singer's opportunities to take the stage ( called the rotation ).
Upon its release, the song was extremely successful, reaching number one in the UK and featuring at number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the ' 80s.
In 1989, Cher's " If I Could Turn Back Time " video ( where the singer performs the song in an extremely revealing body suit surrounded by a ship full of cheering sailors ) was restricted to late-night broadcasts on MTV.
A minor US hit at the time of release ( and a top 40 hit in Canada ), the song would become extremely popular a year later when it was featured in the film Midnight Cowboy, and it would earn Nilsson his first Grammy Award.
By the end of the 16th century, a new generation of composers, including John Dowland, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley were helping to bring the art of Elizabethan song to an extremely high musical level.
This radio broadcast was extremely important to the success of Joel's music career because after the show was recorded, the live recording of " Captain Jack " was played by the Philly station and quickly became " the most requested song in the station's history.
The song is extremely repetitive, rendering the translation largely redundant, " a whole caravan of camels is approaching ".
In addition, Grossmith's comic song written in 1886, " See me dance the polka ", was extremely popular.
While their earlier recordings tended to be at least loosely based on traditional song structures, on their mid-career albums the band reverted to an extremely fluid improvisational style.
* A skit during the Harvard Medical School annual show in 1978 included a song entitled " Pheo " ( recited exactly in the manner of the Western song " Ringo ") as a parody of a guest professor whose lecture on hypertension causes was oddly dominated by the extremely rare pheochromocytoma.
The extremely complex three and four part working song naduri is characteristic of western Georgia.
In the aforementioned two albums, the group goes from an energetic fusion of upbeat genres ( a representative example of which is the song " Vital Transformation ") to very serene, chamber music-like tunes, such as " A Lotus On Irish Streams ," a composition for acoustic guitar, piano and violin, and " Thousand Island Park ," which drops the violin and incorporates double bass ; or from low-key to extremely busy in a single piece, such as " Open Country Joy.
" Dancing Queen " was also extremely successful in Norway, where it charted for 32 weeks on the Norwegian charts ( VG-lista Top 10 ), making it the 11th best-performing single of all time in that country. The song sold over three million copies.
The typical Anal Cunt song was short and loud with extremely distorted guitars played randomly up and down the neck, near incomprehensible screaming and blast beat drumming.
Internal rhyme schemes were extremely common in popular song of the Swing Era.
The song featured in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack, and became extremely popular around the world.
This song was one of the extremely few anti-war music-hall songs during the First World War: most music-hall songs being fiercely pro-war.
The song was extremely critically acclaimed and won, among others:
The song was from the band's album " Party of Fate ", which sold extremely well, achieving triple platinum.
In the episode " I Wanna Mould Your Band " she, January and Karlene appear to be singing the song " Everybody Wants to be a French Girl " very well, though it was later revealed that they were " lip syncing " using a speaker concealed inside Nanette's beehive wig ( which was extremely heavy because of it ), which causes Nanette and her posse to be disqualified from Mr. Tastee Twirl's talent contest.
The lyrics of the song are in many places extremely obscure, and present an unusual mixture of Christian catechesis, astronomical mnemonics, and what may very well be pagan cosmology.
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